The Minister of Digital Transformation, Stefan Andonovski, this evening was a guest on TV Alfa, in the programme "For or Against", where he spoke about the benefits of the National Document Management System (eDMS), which are crucial for enhancing the efficiency of institutions and combating corruption.
“We have a National Document Management System with an electronic archive, which automatically assigns a number to an item when you enter it into the archive, and no one can lose that item, that item cannot be forgotten, be in a drawer. It is known exactly when the item enters the institution, where it is allocated, who is responsible for it and how long it is in a certain phase of the procedure. The product we have is very simple, when I joined the institution, approximately 20 institutions were using the eDMS, and today we actively have 45. In those 20 institutions, the number of items has increased to about 60,000, which means that the frequency has almost tripled. And if we had 0.1 or 0.2 new institutions connected per month - today we have an average of 4 new institutions each month”, emphasised Andonovski.
The Minister added that with this step, there will no longer be items kept in drawers or forgotten by state authorities.
"My proposal is that the Public Prosecutor's Office should also adopt our system and for all documentation to be archived electronically, so that every new case that arrives at the Public Prosecutor's Office as a criminal complaint or a report from citizens is immediately registered electronically. Then, certain prosecutors will no longer be able to forget or lose cases, and the heads of the prosecutor's office will be able to monitor these cases. In this way, we eliminate yet another opportunity for corruption," Andonovski is decisive.
He emphasized that this system also increases communication between institutions, and that cases will no longer take days to process, but mere seconds.